Chapter 013: Bait Preparation

After some consideration, Lin Yang chose to buy an all-water multifunctional rod, purchasing one that was 3.6 meters and another that was 6.3 meters, and he also bought various types of lines and hooks.

As for the fishing bag, tackle box, fishing platform... He planned to buy those items gradually in the future, as shopping online was so convenient and he could buy them at any time.

After a complete sweep, he had spent over a thousand dollars.

Once home, Lin Yang found a super-large foot wash basin and weighed the small millets he had bought before pouring them in.

He then returned to his room and immediately spent a hundred points to exchange for five bottles of enhanced fish attractant.

In the large foot wash basin, which could hold up to a hundred jins of small millets, Lin Yang added a bottle of the enhanced attractant according to the instructions, then rolled up his sleeves and began to stir.

Instantly, an enticing fragrance filled the courtyard and the golden millets turned red due to the medicated soak.

Meanwhile, his mother began to wash all the collected bottles with clean water.

Under Lin Yang's guidance, his father also started to fill the cleaned bottles with bait, with one 500-milliliter bottle holding about half a jin of bait.

This meant that the small millets he bought today could be made into about a thousand portions of bait.

So, the family was busy for several hours, not finishing until it was dark.

He estimated that these nearly a thousand bottles of bait could be sold for several days.

Of course, he had already thought about the pricing. Currently, in tackle shops, half a jin of bait typically started at ten dollars, with the better ones costing between fifteen and twenty.

However, the effectiveness of those baits was far inferior to his, with a difference in fish attraction by three to five times, so he planned to go high-end, directly pricing them at 30 dollars a bottle.

He could not set the price too high, as his enhanced fish attractant was only effective on small fish like Crucian Carp and would not have much effect on big fish such as Carp, grass carp, and Catfish.

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After having dinner and washing up, Lin Yang lay on the bed and rubbed his somewhat sore arms.

Filling a thousand bottles of bait in one afternoon was not exactly an easy task, but luckily, these thousand bottles of bait were enough to last several days.

Though each bottle of bait only weighed half a jin, only a baby fist-sized clump was needed for each fishing session, so one bottle was enough for several uses.

After producing the bait, Lin Yang then got busy listing them on the little yellow cart app.

First, he used his phone to upload some photos he took in the afternoon as advertising images.

However, as soon as he logged into the Douyin backend, a string of private messages continuously popped up.

[Brother Aquatic]: "Brother, this is my WeChat; add me, and I'll transfer the money for the Sand Pond Perch to you."

[I'm really not a fisherman]: "Host, what time is it now? Why isn't the bait listed on the little yellow cart yet? Even the production team's donkeys wouldn't take such a break."

[Not Left Empty on Casting]: "Host, let's be friends. I'm a fishing streamer too, let's exchange some ideas when we have time."

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Lin Yang smiled at the various private messages, then first added Si Ge's WeChat from the morning. He had been busy all afternoon and had almost forgotten about it.

After sending the friend request, it wasn't long before the other party accepted and transferred the 800 dollars for the fish from the morning.

"Brother, have you finished making the bait? Send me some first, I'll transfer the money to you now." Then, Si Ge urgently asked about Lin Yang's special bait.

"I'll list them on the little yellow cart now, you can buy them directly from there," he typed back in response.

Selling items on the small yellow bike was the same as selling them in a shopping mall, with the platform only taking a 5% commission, so there was no significant difference between selling offline and on the platform for him.

After replying to Si Ge, he exited the backend and started editing the live screen recording from this morning.

He edited the screen recording of catching continuous Crucian Carp into a video clip, and also included a screenshot of the bait mix prepared in the afternoon.

He also edited out a separate clip of the Sand Pond Perch that weighed over a kilogram caught during fishing and captioned it, "Wild fishing, have you seen this fish before?"

After posting two consecutive video clips, he then listed the eagerly anticipated bait mix on the small yellow bike and noted, "Please mark it for citywide delivery to avoid sending it by the wrong courier service, which could delay time."

After finishing everything, Lin Yang, like the night before, cuddled up with his earnings for today:

First, the reward for catching Crucian Carp and Sand Pond Perch added up to 1300 dollars, the share from the live stream tips was over 600, plus the income from selling the Crucian Carp and Sand Pond Perch was 1050, making the income for the morning about 3000 dollars, a considerable sum.

However, he had spent over 3700 dollars today on a new phone and fishing gear, so overall, his earnings were negative.

Just kidding....

The bait he made this afternoon, after deducting costs and selling out, would eventually make him more than 20,000 dollars, overall, he still made a killing.

Although the balance on his phone wasn't much right now, the thought of earning more than 20,000 dollars once he sold this batch of bait kept him excited.

At this rate, reaching a million was just a matter of time!

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The next day, at 6:30 in the morning, Lin Yang was woken up by his alarm.

Now in early spring, the sky outside the window was already faintly lighting up, and it would be dawn in a while.

If he wanted to properly live stream fishing, he couldn't do like before, not reaching the riverbank until eight or nine in the morning. Rising early is a must for a qualified fisherman.

Lin Yang rolled out of bed, got dressed, and went to the bathroom to wash up and brush his teeth.

Ten minutes later, he took his fishing gear, rode his electric scooter, and headed straight to the fishing spot.

Today he planned to change his fishing spot, especially since the riverside he fished at yesterday wasn't great, and there would definitely be many people there today.

Choosing a good fishing spot is very important for a good catch; getting up early was mainly to secure a spot.

As for the bait orders listed on the small yellow bike last night, Lin Yang planned to handle them after returning at noon; after all, it had only been one night, and there weren't many orders.

On his way, he bought a few steamed buns for breakfast, then raced to the fishing spot.

This fishing spot was a bit further than yesterday's, but the fish situation was expected to be better.

When he got there, he saw that vast areas for fishing on both sides were still empty, except for the very front position at Hua Jian, which was occupied.

Lin Yang, carrying his fishing gear, chose an empty spot on the left side of Hua Jian and sat down.

The man in the middle glanced at him and said, "Brother, you arrived quite early."

"Haha, not too early, definitely not as early as you," Lin Yang replied.

"I came here last night for night fishing and stayed the whole night. The water temperature is low at night, so the bites are fewer, but the sizes of the fish are bigger. From about three in the morning until now, I haven't even had a bite, but I guess from six to about eight or nine there might be another peak when the fish bite."

After hearing his words, Lin Yang noticed for the first time that this fellow fisherman was indeed wrapped up very warmly, apparently because he hadn't left after night fishing.

In that case, in this old fishing spot, he was the first to arrive today.